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VERNAL — A 20-year-old man was arrested in Vernal Thursday and accused of uploading child sex abuse material and secretly recording women using the bathroom at his work.
Jaedon Kodiak Nielson was booked into the Uintah County Jail for investigation of five counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a child, five counts of sexual exploitation of a child and eight counts of voyeurism.
The investigation began in February when Vernal police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children of possible child sex abuse material being uploaded to the Kik app. Investigators identified Nielson as a suspect and reviewed his Kik account and found child sex abuse material, according to a police booking affidavit.
"Additionally, among the files in that return I observed that there were seven unique videos which depicted, what appeared to be, adult females in a bathroom stall," the affidavit states. "The videos appear to be taken from a low angle with the camera placed in a position below the bottom of the privacy wall of the stall to gain visual access to the persons captured in the videos."
When questioned, Nielson said he shared one of those voyeuristic videos with another person and described the habit of recording the videos "as a kink," the affidavit alleges.
Police did not indicate in the arrest report where the videos were recorded, only saying it was at Nielson's former place of employment in Uintah County.
